Suspender-buckle.



GEORGE A. WELD, OF WINCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

Application filed December 19, 1907.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2, 1908 Serial No. 407,180.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. WELD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Winchester, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspender-Buckles; and- I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to buckles, but more particularly has reference to suspender buckles so constructed that the webbing may be disposed in such manner that said buckles will be rustless.

The object of my invention isto provide a buckle in which the clamping of the webbing shall be effected against a resiliently yielding bar or surface, and my invention consists of certain details of construction and combination of parts such as will be hereinafter fully described and then particularly pointed out in the claims which conclude this specification.

Referring to the drawing Figure 1 is a view in elevation of my preferred style of buckle having a webbing attached thereto Fig. 2 a view in elevation of my preferred style of buckle without the webbingFig. 3 a cross section showing the buckle clamped against the webbing, and Fig. 4 an elevation of a modified form of my improvement.

Similar numbers of reference denote like parts in the several figures of the drawing.

My improved buckle is made from wire and comprises a closed loop at the bottom, a space for the webbing above said loop, pintles formed by the extreme ends of the wire immediately beyond said space, and a clamping lever pivoted to said pintles and adapted to coact with the upper surface or bar of said loop.

In making the frame of my improved buckle, the wire is bent to form the bottom and ends of the loop, the free ends of the wire being then bent inwardly beyond each ends of the loop to form the sides 3 of the Webbing space, and thence inwardly to provide pintles 4. The top or upper bar of the loop thus formed will afford a resiliently yie ng clamping surface, and I provide a clamping lever 5 with ears 6 that are curled around the pintles 4 thereby affording a pivotal connection for said lever which latter has a lip 7 preferably serrated, which lip, when the lever is properly operated, ooacts with. said clamping surface to firmly bind the webbing.

One end of the webbing 8 is passed from the rear of the buckle through the space 9 and thence down over the face of the buckle and is secured to the body of the webbing in any suitable manner as by stitching, the main webbing being then passed through the space 9 from the front of the buckle, so that it will be clear that none of the metal portions at the back of the buckle will come in contact with the clothing of the wearer, and my buckle, therefore, possesses the advantages of being rustless so-called. When the clamping lever is forced downwardly the lip 7 will coact with the clamping surface 2 to bind the webbing firmly, and if the webbing has considerable thickness this clamping surface will yield when the clamping lever is operated so that there can be no undue straining ofthe buckle. The object of forming this loop with its upper boundary composed of its side wires extended toward and beyond each other is solely to provide a resiliently yielding clamping surface to coact with the clamping lever, and this is the novel feature involved in my present invention. Two of these resilient loops 1 may be formed at the lower portion of the frame, if desired, as shown at Fig. 4, but I prefer the construction shown at Fig. 2.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. A buckle made from Wire and comprising a closed loop at the bottom, a space for the webbing above said loop, pintles formed by the extreme ends of the wire immediately beyond said space, and a clamping lever piv= oted to said pintles, the wire being bent to form the bottom and ends of the loop, the free ends of the wire being then bent and extended inwardly beyond each other and in the same horizontal plane, said ends being then bent upwardly in planes beyond the ends of the loop and thence inwardly to form said pintles, whereby the top of the loop will afford a resiliently yielding clamping surface to coact with said clamping lever.

2. A buckle comprising a frame made of wire formed into a closed loop at the bottom of the frame, the upper boundary of said for the Webbing and pintles, and a clamping lever pivoted around said pintles and having at its lower edge a clamping lip adapted in closed position to ooact with said clamping :15 surface.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

GEO. A. WELD. Witnesses:

F. VJ. SMITH, Jr., M. T. LONGDEN 

